The most popularized version of the massacre in Jedwabne , and the most fantastic , detached from reality , full of presumptions, of controversial comments , suggestions , insinuations, and vast implications , or bizarre narrative historiosophical was written by Jan Tomasz Gross
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The most popularized version of the massacre in Jedwabne , and at the same time the most fantastic , detached from reality , full of controversial statements presumptions of , suggestions, insinuations , unexpected implications and the new narrative historiosophical was written by Jan Tomasz Gross . Author wanted to prove that the murder of the Jewish citizens of Jedwabne was a spontaneous event by nature, executed ​​by the Polish “society “. In the heat of his writings he took absent witnesses in Jedwabne as present at the day of massacre, unsigned testimony, as well as gender confusion.
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This work includes the early-postwar testimonies of rabbis, and their lucid and moving description of the sufferings of the Jews. This included not only the brutal murders of 6 million innocent men, women, and children, but also the systematic destruction of centuries of Jewish civilization. The heartfelt descriptions brought me to tears.>>more...

Author Marshall Sklare was a Jewish American sociologist who had studied America's Jews. [Review based on 1993 edition]. He was eminently qualified to speak on this subject. A number of coauthors had joined him. Most of the themes of this book are familiar: Jewish self-identity, Jewish mobility, intermarriage with non-Jews, Jewish support for Israel, Jewish philanthropy, Jewish conversions and resistance to them, etc. There is relatively little on the role of the Shoah in the self-identity of American Jews.
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By way of introduction, the title "Gone to Pitchipoi", is based on a Yiddish phrase that means, "Gone to utopia or hell". (p. 85). This work elaborates on the author's childhood life before and during WWII. The Katz family had lived in Ostrowiec, Poland.
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PUNITIVE POLAND 1939-1945 is approximately the title of this Polish-language book. This work is yet another refutation of the silly notion that Poles are so imbued with their "heroic narrative" of fighting the Nazis that they are unwilling to discuss "dark chapters" of Polish history. In fact, heroic behaviors and cowardly behaviors were mirror images of each other under the brutalities of the German occupation. (p. 107). The Polish Blue Police (POLICJA GRANATOWA) exemplified this divide. A significant fraction (perhaps over 10%) were involved in the Polish Underground, while another fraction collaborated with the enemy or engaged in exploitative or bandit conduct. (e. g, p. 99, 111).
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